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I used to grow Sweetheart cabbages which were an F1 variety so very expensive seed! To offset the cost and prolong the growing season making the seed cost more acceptable, I would cut a cross in the remaining stem wjen harvesting.
If I opened up the 'cross' a little bit with a knife I would invariably get new shoots forming on stem which would eventually give me a host of sweetheat cabbage later in the season.
Another trick I have with spring cabbage is to plant them fairly close together and use the thinnnings as Spring Greens allowing the others to heart up later in the season. One year I grew some sping cabbage in the greenhouse in pots which wee sown the same time as the outdoor SC. This also gave me an extended crop.
I have managed to keep Austurian tree cabbage, which isnt a perennial, growing for four years by pegging down some of its branches to the soil (layering) where it has re-rooted!
If I opened up the 'cross' a little bit with a knife I would invariably get new shoots forming on stem which would eventually give me a host of sweetheat cabbage later in the season.
Another trick I have with spring cabbage is to plant them fairly close together and use the thinnnings as Spring Greens allowing the others to heart up later in the season. One year I grew some sping cabbage in the greenhouse in pots which wee sown the same time as the outdoor SC. This also gave me an extended crop.
I have managed to keep Austurian tree cabbage, which isnt a perennial, growing for four years by pegging down some of its branches to the soil (layering) where it has re-rooted!
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